Jessica Traynor’s work engages with history and its echoes, especially in connection to the landscape, politics and geography of her native Dublin. Traynor's latest publication, Pit Lullabies (2022) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, while her second collection, The Quick, was a 2019 Irish Time poetry choice. Poet Helen Mort has said of the work: “Visionary, luminous and haunted, Jessica Traynor’s poems are home to a host of compelling characters: witches, changelings, the spirit of Hildegard of Bingen.